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So vital to the economy since then they have been practically empty. egypts famous nile river used to be packed with these boats, called feluccas, the last americans that he had on his felucca, were a month ago. how much money did you make this week? >> this week? this now is 10 pounds. >> just 10 pounds. less than $2. >> he told us he is going to join the masses on tahrir square. alex marquardt, abc news. >> closer to home authorities in canada foiled a terror plot that would have been a carbon...

Revelation. >> that the -- we dont really entirely understand first of all what fisa is doing in this, and we dont know how they approve of warrants and actually were told that they approve every single one. if theyre on a rolling basis and nsa had up to a year to vacuum up whatever they would like and are given wide discretion, it is really not a system with all those mandatory substantive minimum miizations weave led to believe there are. >> specifically if they get information inadvertently a...

What we have seen with the new documents released guy the "guardian" the rules of the road are supposed restrict information aimed at domestic targets when sweeping up foreign conversations. yet at the same time, there are waivers. and there are a lot of cases where they can use and can then act on information on domestic targets if they are useful in criminal investigations or because of a threatened terror plot. . great to be back, andrea. lets break it down. this morning we saw out of the "gu...

The blade hidden in a pocket after landing at jfk. no incidents while the plane was in flight. agents are trying to track down passengers who sat in the seat. >> the controversial nsa surveillance program helped foil more than 50 terror plots. ten plots said to be here in the u.s. including one targeting the new york city subways. even a strong suggestion that the september 11th attacks could have been prevented if they had secret surveillance in place back then. >> i would much rather be here t...

Does an assessment which he provides to congress that reports on compliance, the number of disseminations under this program that relate to u.s. persons. the number of targets reasonably -- >> we are told general alexander will reveal terror plot stopped by surveillance. these are the questions that are going to be asked by members of the house intelligence committee. let me bring in our national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff, and michael, lets talk about the decision to release t...

Domestic terror attacks. i wonder if the information should be declassified so americans can learn how successful or not it is. if they are able to understand it in the proper context, what it has accomplished maybe they would be more willing to accept it? >> sure. lets presume a dozen attacks have been thwarted. you would think with the passage of time can be dealt with detail and those details may be helpful in building support for the program. if the details are not forthcoming there will be ...

Weekend to dispute reports of government snoopg into telephone calls and e mails. he insists there is a proper balance between personal privacy an national security. can you give me any examples where it is actually prevented a terror plot? >> well, two cases that come to mind, which are a little dated, but i think in the interest of this discourse, should be shared with the american people. they both occurred in 2009. one was the aborted plot to bomb the subway in new york city in the fall of 2...

The counterpart on the house side to dianne feinstein has just talked about the fact that he says terror plot, at least one terror plot was averted because of this, of this whole fisa law. lets watch. >> i can tell you why this program is important. that within the last few years, this program was used to stop a program, excuse me, stop a terrorist attack in the united states. we know that. its, its important, it fills in a little seam that we have. and its used to make sure that there is not an...

>> so, atika, 12 people so far arrested in the case. have police determined whether the attack was organized by a specific terror network? >> reporter: you know, theres no indication of that yet, and police havent given us any indication how all of these people are connected. all of them, most of them appear to be young men. we dont know, you know, if theyre related, if theyre friends, acquaintances. we do know that two of them were apparently arrested on suspicion of illegally supplying firearm...

Committed the boston attack. also he is being interviewed in the context of being involved in this awful triple murder. so the fact that is the context and this individual has a violent history and hes coming at with you a weapon that could be deadly, its notten reasonable for the agents to have acted the way they did. >> we want to take a look at another developing part of the story. new evidence that the boston bombing is becoming a key recruiting tool for al qaeda. the terror plot is front an...